WALLED UP ALIVE.
Letters received at Tangier on June 15 from Marrakesh confirm the report that the cobbler Mesfiwi, who murdered and buried about thirty women, has expiattd his crimes. It had. first been determined that the murderer should publicly be crucified, but orders were issu.d subsequently that Ive should be walled up alive. Previously Mesfiwi had been 1 to daily floggings. The find act of the tragedy took place in public. When the masoris were at work they were surrounded by a. mob, who jeered the trembling wretch. When the walling in had been completed the mob still remained hurung insults ai the doomed man. For the fiist two days Mesfiwi screamed for release, and the mob' exulted in his agony. On the third day the tomb gave forth no sound.
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Evening Star, Issue 12883, 4 August 1906, Page 9
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132WALLED UP ALIVE. Evening Star, Issue 12883, 4 August 1906, Page 9
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